S 1497
109th Congress
Senate
Animals
Crime and Law Enforcement
Eagles
Electric power transmission
Electric utilities
Endangered species
Energy
Environmental Protection
Fines (Penalties)
Law
Licenses
Migratory bird conservation
Protection of animals
Public Lands and Natural Resources
A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior to provide incidental take permits to public electric utilities that adopt avian protection plans.
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jul 26, 2005
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Jul 26, 2005
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to provide an incidental take permit to a public electric utility that has adopted an avian protection plan, if the Secretary determines that the utility has included in the plan specific measures to mitigate hazards to eagles and other migratory birds.
Shields a public utility that receives such an incidental take permit from criminal or civil penalty under specified statutes for the incidental death by electrocution of such birds by a power line during the period the permit is in effect.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
Committees of jurisdiction
1